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Financial services among top taxpayers

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
... $195 million in company tax, 23.8% of its total income. This was followed by Platinum Asset Management (22.3%), the Future Fund Investment Company No.2 (19.5), and ASX (19.4). Also of note were Magellan Financial Group (18.3%) and Schroder Australia ...

Venture capital is back in vogue

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2015
... there's also renewed appetite for foreign sovereign wealth funds to invest in domestic private equity as well as our own Future Fund that increase its allocation to private equity by $1 billion in the past 12 months," he said. "So there is a lot of support ...

Pessimistic investment horizon for super

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
... (ASFA) conference in Brisbane recently. Contango Asset Management investment services director and Guardian of the Future Fund, Carol Austin, told the session that the next couple of years are going to be difficult but she forecasts a recovery back to ...

Future Fund's morphing objective

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
Ambiguity around the Future Fund and whether it's a fund for public servants' super or a genuine Australian sovereign wealth fund continues to challenge the fund's leadership. Speaking in Perth yesterday, Future Fund managing director David Neal believes ...

Future Fund appoints equities head

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015

Future Fund issues return warning

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
The Future Fund has issued a warning to investors that the high returns of the past few years are unlikely to continue in the medium term. The latest update shows the Future Fund's investment strategy has almost doubled the value of original government ...

PROFILE: Blue Sky managing director Mark Sowerby

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... to today and the competition for infrastructure assets and alternative sources of return is a well-told story. The Future Fund, for instance, has had a great deal of success investing in illiquid assets and hedge funds and now allocates some 14% of its ...

Long-term investment under the spotlight

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015
... tweaking fund portability; and better industry guidance. Many of these ideas were raised in Warren's recent paper for the Future Fund. Warren said more than 20 years ago building materials and media were considered the best stocks whereas banks were ...

First State Super appoints ex-Barclays risk head

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
... Investments/Towers Watson top 100 pension funds list in the 96th place, along with other Australian funds including the Future Fund, AustralianSuper, UniSuper and QSuper. The fund currently has about $53 billion in funds under management and over 750,000 ...

Aussie super funds in top 100

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
... Pensions & Investments magazine and Towers Watson. The P&I/Towers Watson Global 300 list was launched today with both the Future Fund (29) and AustralianSuper (43) improving their positions inside the world's top 50 super funds. QSuper (82) and First ...